Unlike a bacterium, a virus cannot
Answer: C
The inability to generate energy is one of the two constraints that make a virus an obligate intracellular parasite, alongside having no protein-synthesising machinery. Viruses do contain both protein and nucleic acid and are readily inactivated by heat.
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Binary fission is a means of reproduction used by
Answer: D
Bacteria divide in two, growing steadily until they split. A virus does not divide at all: its parts are made separately inside the host cell and then assembled, so the number of particles rises in a burst rather than by doubling.
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The nucleocapsid of a virus is
Answer: A
Nucleocapsid names the genome and its protein coat as one structure. In a naked virus that is the whole particle; in an enveloped virus it is what lies inside the lipid layer, and it may be helical even when the particle looks roughly spherical.
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A Sendai virus nucleocapsid is described as about
Answer: B
The nucleocapsid is long and very thin, which is characteristic of helical symmetry: the length follows the length of the genome while the diameter is fixed by the coat protein. It is coiled inside the envelope, so the particle appears far more compact than the figure suggests.
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A circovirus isometric capsid measures about
Answer: C
Circoviruses are among the smallest animal viruses, with a capsid of roughly 17 nanometres. Isometric means the particle is equal in its dimensions, the appearance an icosahedral shell presents, in contrast with the elongated form of a helical nucleocapsid.
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The term 'isometric', applied to a virus particle, indicates that it
Answer: D
Isometric describes a particle whose dimensions are much the same in every direction, which is how an icosahedral capsid looks under the microscope. Helical nucleocapsids are elongated instead, and complex particles fall into neither description.
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Viruses are most commonly grown in the laboratory in
Answer: A
A virus needs living cells, so it cannot be grown on the sterile media that support bacteria however rich they are. Cell culture is the routine method, with animal inoculation kept for the minority of viruses that will not grow in it.
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Which of these is used when a virus cannot be isolated in cell culture?
Answer: B
Isolation occasionally requires inoculation into animals: suckling mice, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters or primates. The choice depends on which host supports that virus, and the practice persists for agents cell lines will not sustain.
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Which group of viruses is noted as not being isolable in cell culture systems?
Answer: C
Hepatitis viruses are singled out as agents that cannot be recovered in cell culture, which is why their diagnosis rests on serology and on detecting viral antigens or nucleic acid rather than on isolation. The other three groups grow readily in culture.
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An embryonated egg is useful for growing viruses because it
Answer: D
The developing embryo and its supporting membranes offer several different tissues at once, so a single system can support a wide variety of viruses that differ in which cells they can enter. That diversity is what makes the egg valuable rather than any chemical property.
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